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Demolition

One schemes up the raptor, / annoys its neck to straighten / and reach for the aging gymnasium

DemolitionFrom our isolation roomswe fasten our eyes each morningon the drama across the street.Hard hats invade like beetles. One schemes up the raptor,annoys its neck to straightenand reach for the aging gymnasium,spread wide its pincer to biteanother free edge to fracturethe black roof, leaving gnarledgirders like tough spaghettistuck in the reptile’s teeth. Cement and brick walls crumbleunder the champing jaw. Suddenly the head tilts,pins its sideways glancedirectly on our faces.

Dianne Silvestri is author of the chapbook Necessary Sentiments. Since derailed by leukemia from her career as physician, she pursues her favorite avocation. Her poems have appeared in Naugatuck River Review, Barrow Street Journal,The Worcester Review, Inscape, Poetry South, Zingara Poetry Review, THEMA, The Main Street Rag, Amerian Journal of Nursing, The Healing Muse, The Examined Life Journal, and elsewhere. She studies and performs with several workshops, leads the Morse Poetry Group, and is Copy-Editor of the journal Dermatitis.